Where to put account declarations and prices? #119
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'd like to declare accounts to take advantage of hledger's strict checking.
However, they are not tied to any particular year. I tried to them in the 1-in directory but it is not picked up by hledger-flow import to appear in all-years.journal.
Version and Runtime Information
hledger-flow 0.15.0 darwin x86_64 ghc 9.0 2b025fee477538a493cb7b5eaf163fd959aaec42
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Our Example Statements Repository
None of the examples in hledger-flow use account declarations.
I encounter the following error when running
> hledger check -f ./all-year.journal -s
hledger: Error: /Users/cryptogoth/src/hledger-flow-example/import/./gawie/bogart/cheque/2016-opening.journal:2:5-38:
| 2016-03-01 Cheque Account Opening Balance
2 | Assets:Current:Gawie:Bogart:Cheque R40500.00
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Equity:Opening Balances:Gawie:Bogart:Cheque R-40500.00
undeclared account "Assets:Current:Gawie:Bogart:Cheque"
Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to include a journal file in 3-journal for any account, outside of the year directories, that gets automatically included in the all-years.journal.
3-journal/
├── accounts.journal
├── 2022
│ └── 2022-12-13.journal
└── 2023
├── 02-10-2023.journal
├── 2023-01-13.journal
├── 2023-11-12.journal
└── 2023-checkpoints.journal
Describe alternatives you've considered
It works to use a year that is before the timespan of any of my actual transactions, such as 1900.
3-journal/
├── 1900
│ └── accounts.journal
├── 2022
│ └── 2022-12-13.journal
└── 2023
├── 02-10-2023.journal
├── 2023-01-13.journal
├── 2023-11-12.journal
└── 2023-checkpoints.journal
Additional context
Similar use cases that would be solved by this request would be price files, for commodity, stock, and currency prices.